But it is worth listening carefully to the drumming for one that is subtly different and might lead you to a much rarer bird, the lesser spotted woodpecker. The larger woodpecker's drumming is a ...

followed by the much chunkier green woodpecker with its jaunty red cap and loud laughing call. The lesser spotted woodpecker is, as its name implies, smaller. However, the name has recently taken on a ...

As we move further into Spring, listen out for the high pitched laughing sounds of green woodpeckers calling to each other, ...

Some of the interesting species of birds to be seen at Elan Valley include the merlin, lesser spotted woodpecker, goshawk, peregrine falcon, red kite, siskin, dunlin, golden plover and crossbill.